Previous events In 'BOMGS events' EventsPrevious events Back to 'Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies ' 2021 1st December - Leisure, Luxury, Austerity, and Citizenship in Archaic and Classical Sparta24th November - Keleusate: Ceremony and Architecture in the Great Palace of Constantinople17th November - Sinuhe, Sex and Snow: What Egyptology does with Poems10th November - Roundtable discussion on Landscape, Nature and Environment10th November - 'Into The Labyrinth: a Journey into Stoudite ''Cancel Culture''27th October - Editorial Power: Galen and his Manipulated Canon20th October - Rethinking the Black Death: Can the Ottoman Plague Experience Offer Us Novel Insights?20th October - Looking for the Poor in Byzantium13th October - Seeing Incarceration in Antiquity: Two Case Studies6th October - Greek Manuscripts in Birmingham: A New Catalogue29th September - Sharing Reads and References29th-30th May - 21st annual postgraduate colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies20th May - Questioning the accuracy of the Origo Constantini imperatoris6th May - Encountering Ottomans and Mamluks in Late 15th-century Italian Painting4th May - BRIHC seminar (title tbc)27th April - Archipelago Capitalism22nd April - Byzantium and its islands20th April - Gendered Belongings. Partition Refugees in Nehruvian India27th-29th March - Nature and the Environment - The 53rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies23rd March - Re-thinking Archives and Archivality in the Medieval Islamicate18th March - New voices16th March - Population Control in Ghana's Twentieth Century11th March - Breadstamps: Imprinting the Sacred2nd March - The Scientific Life in Colonial South Asia23rd February - National Trajectories and European Horizons: British and West German Conservatism after 194516th February - Myth, Reality, and the Origins of New England9th February - Hidden History. Birmingham's BAME Medical Practitioners, c.1900-19704th February - Between text and image, between writing and orality28th January - The Great Church which is called Sophia 2020 8th December - Migration and Mobility within the Ancient Mediterranean World. Question of Scale and Structure3rd December - Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks1st December - Gender Trouble in British Interwar Student Life24th November - Navigating Naval Medicine: Ships' Doctors and the Boundaries of Medical Power in the Royal Navy during the Second World War19th November - The Palaiologan Inscriptions of Venetian Crete: interpretative contradictions.17th November - Regulating Vagabonds: Religious Violence and the Governance of Public Order in Late Colonial India12th November - BRIHC Research in Practice: Dr Kate Skinner10th November - Q and A with Steven Pincus: The Global Origins of the Seven Years War (Lecture now available on Canvas)29th October - String theory: order and disruption in Byzantine interlace27th October - Building God's empire: Archaeology, Religion and the Byzantine Reconquest of Africa27th October - Building God's empire: archaeology, religion and the Byzantine reconquest of Africa20th October - Dror Wahrman - The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes of an Early Modern Object20th October - Dancing in the streets of Constantinople17th October - Undergraduate Open Day14th October - Back through Byzantium: textual transmission, global history and the journey of a travel account13th October - Health and race. roundtable discussion8th October - Quarantine Tales12th September - Undergraduate Open Day12th July-8th August - Cancelled: The Classical and Byzantine Greek Summer School25th June - Undergraduate Open Day24th June - Undergraduate Open Day26th March - Cancelled: Questioning the accuracy of the Origo Constantini imperatoris16th March - From Rejection to Reconciliation — Coming to Terms with the Image in Protestant England 1560-164012th March - Seminar cancelled11th March - Postgraduate Open Day10th March - The Rise of Historical Monuments as Symbols of the State and the Destruction of Architectural Heritage in Late 19th Century Romania5th March - Title to be confirmed25th February - The Twelfth-century Chronicle of John Zonaras: A "hybrid" composition13th February - 'Augustine's women'11th February - Thomas Greene in Context: Middling Narratives of Self and Place 1600-16406th February - Living heritage in Greece: perceptions of traditional settlements4th February - Slavery in the West African Sahel — A Resilient Institution'1st February - BMCA Teachers' Day30th January - Female agency in Mystras: fashion indices in late Byzantine art23rd January - The Colonialism of Neoliberal Gentrification23rd January - The view from the edge: Byzantium and post-Roman Hispania16th January - Approaching the 'Macedonian Dynasty': family and gender14th January - Postcolonial Commemorative Practices Surrounding Monument aux Morts — The Afterlives of Indo-French Colonial Connections around Puducherry's French War Memorial (rescheduled) 2019 10th December - Beyond the Marxist and "culturalist" divide. Ideology and democracy in classical Athens5th December - New Approaches to Medieval Romance from the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond, c. 1100-15005th December - Approaches to the Byzantine novel4th December - Building God's empire: archaeology, religion and the Byzantine reconquest of Africa26th November - A Train Station on the Left. The Making of a Socialist Public Sphere in Romania (1882-1914)21st November - Morale and discipline in the Ottoman army,.c.1450-c.160019th November - Independence as Rupture, Continuity or Transition? Gendering Citizenship and Decolonising Justice in 1960s Ghana14th November - The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty14th November - Byzantium and Africa: a new frontier12th November - Comparing Peripheries. Galicia and Carinthia in Medieval Time31st October - Byzantium: commonwealth, empire or nation-state?29th October - Religious Coexistence in the Eastern Mediterranean World. From the Perspective of Cyprus under the Latins24th October - Bridging the Gap: processions in early medieval Constantinople17th October - English chaplains and the Greek Church in 18th-century Aleppo10th October - Islamisation and Sufism in Mongol Anatolia and beyond21st March - Flavius Josephus in medieval Greek and Latin Histories: some cross-cultural approaches14th March - Francis Bacon in Ancient Greek. Nikolaos Mavrokordatos (1680-1730) and cultural mobility7th March - Consular networks, shipping routes, and the Ottoman world in the late 19th century28th February - Greek Adoptees Anonymous: adoption, memory and Cold War Greece14th February - 'Remnants of Byzantium': the uses of the past by the expatriated Greeks of Turkey7th February - Kantakouzenos' daemon: providence and persuasion in late Byzantine historiography31st January - Unlikely migrants: slavery, emancipation, and race in the Reform-Era Ottoman Mediterranean24th January - Interpreting the Constantinopolitan landscape: A Rus traveller in Byzantium17th January-17th February - Environment, economy and landscape in early modern Cyprus 2018 13th December - Reconfiguring the template: representations of powerful women in historical fiction -- the case of Anna Komnene 6th December - Ottoman dreams of destiny and omens of greatness 29th November - Sultans as saviors: early modern Mediterranean Jewish accounts of the Ottoman rulers 22nd November - The church of St John the Theologian and the End of Antiquity in Constantinople 15th November - Current archaeological research on settlement and provincial life in the Byzantine Mediterranean: the case of the Peloponnese 1st November - Byzantine influence in Winchester Cathedral? 25th October - Equines and the margins of Byzantine power: humility or humiliation? 18th October - Invention and reality in Byzantine historical narratives: the impact of Polyaenus and military manuals on the Alexiad of Anna Komnene 11th October - Travellers' Tales 2nd June - 19th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies 29th May - Empire of the Greeks' to 'Byzantium': the politics of a modern paradigm-shift 25th-26th May - Medieval Dynasties 4th May - Exploring crises in the modern Greek World cultural narratives, identity politics social life 22nd March - Greek cinema as European cinema: co-productions, film festivals and the Weird Wave 17th March - Delos Network: Workshop 1 - Delos Ideals 8th March - Justinian II, the image of Christ and taxation 22nd February - Between Mosul and Rome: the Church of the East in the seventeenth century 8th February - Scale-making projects: Byzantium and the Christian communities of Khazaria 1st February - The Ottoman canon of historical writing and writing the history of Kanun in the sixteenth century 25th January - Villehardouin's castle of Grand Magne (Megali Maini): a re-assessment of the evidence for its location 18th January - Who's who in sixteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul 11th January - Scale-making projects: Byzantium and the Christian communities of Khazaria 2017 30th November - Turkey and liberal democracy? Authoritarian drift since 2007 23rd November - 'This land is your land' 16th November - The Cypriot Canzoniere and Italian Renaissance music 9th November - 'Glorified from heaven above' 26th October - History, time, and economic crisis in Central Greece 19th October - Old statues, new meanings. Literary and archaeological evidence for Christian re-interpretation of classical statuary 12th October - Reading the Acts of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-1) 5th October - Travellers' Tales 3rd June - Multiculturalism from Late Antiquity to Modernity: CBOMGS Colloquium 25th-27th March - Global Byzantium 23rd March - Out on a limb? Forest and field in Byzantine Apulia, 7th–11th centuries 16th March - The new Ottoman Greece: Replacing the Turkish Yoke with pluralistic coexistence in history and fiction 9th March - Heirloom manuscripts? The Romeika manuscripts in Arabic script of the Turco-Yanniotes and Turco-Cretans 2nd March - History, time, and economic crisis in Central Greece | Cancelled 24th-25th February - Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era 23rd February - Old statues, new meanings. Literary and archaeological evidence for Christian re-interpretation of classical statuary 9th February - Greek women diarists and memoirists: twentieth century female voices in a masculine world 2nd February - Lead seals in the excavations of Byzantine Corinth (1896–2014): confronting inscribed artefacts with history 26th January - How to spend it? Wealth, charity and remembrance in the late Byzantine period 19th January - From Antiquity to Byzantium in late medieval Italy: Hercules on the facade of San Marco 12th January - Mary and the Magnificat: the earliest monumental example? 2016 8th December - Seljuk palace culture and Byzantium 1st December - Byzantine medicine reconsidered: the case of John Zacharias Aktouarios (ca. 1275– ca. 1330) 24th November - Managing living Byzantine Heritage sites: reality - international developments 17th November - Art, politics and eschatology in the burial chapels of lay monastic founders in Byzantium, 11th–14th centuries 13th October - How Norman and how Byzantine is the Martorana in Palermo? S. Maria dell'Ammiraglio in Palermo reconsidered 6th October - Travellers' Tales 4th June - Redefining the Margins: Seeing the Unseen in the Eastern Mediterranean 13th May - Book Launch: The Last Varlamis by Thanasis Valtinos 3rd March - From Mudros To Lausanne: British Policy In The Near East, Greece And Turkey, 1918-23 4th February - The Human Rights Record Of The Greek "Colonels" (1967-74), The Anti-Torture Campaign, And The Rise Of Global Standards 28th January - Engonopoulos And Pindar: The Poetics And Politics Of Praise 2015 10th December - Performability, Laments And The Christos Paschon 3rd December - Constantinople, Cairo Or Alexandria? Latin Merchants And Papal Trade Exemptions In The Late Medieval Mediterranean 26th November - Persons, Practices And Things In Circulation Between Byzantium And The British Isles In The Viking Age 19th November - 'What's In A Name?' Sculptors And Workshops In Eleventh-Century Greece 12th November - Lessons From A New History Of Byzantium, 955-1097 AD 29th October - On The Spot: The Appanage In Palaiologan Politics 22nd October - Nicholas Mesarites: A Man For All Seasons 15th October - Women Of The Komnenian House Under Manuel I, As Seen In The Poems Of Mangeneios Prodromos 26th July-23rd August - Byzantine Greek Summer School 2015 30th May - CBOMGS 16th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium 23rd May - Greece in Crisis: Culture and the Politics of Austerity 26th March - The Photian schism (858-880): towards a cultural history 12th March - The Saga of ancient statues in medieval Constantinople 26th February - From Theophanes to Psellos: transformations of Byzantine historiography 5th February - Refashioning a maritime past in the Eastern Mediterranean 29th January - Friends, colleagues and grand vezirs: the Ottoman art of letter-writing 22nd January - Byron's Greece 1809-1824 15th January - The Christianization of Crete and the Peloponnese in the Late Antique period 2014 11th December - Crisis and famine in island Greece: sovereign debt, political violence and topologies of memory in Chios 4th December - Mother vs maiden: Helena, Pulcheria and the formulation of imperial dynasty in late antiquity 27th November - Byzantine adolescence: real or imaginary? 20th November - Abul Abbas and all that: the caliphate and the West in the Age of Bede and Charlemagne 13th November - Making it last: the construction and repair of a seventh-century ship from Constantinople's Theodosian harbour 9th October - Traveller's Tales 20th September - Greece: From Junta to Crisis 12th June - 2014 Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies 24th May - CBOMGS 15th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium 27th March - Why was there no Renaissance in Byzantine art? 20th March - Material culture and history: Byzantine and Ottoman Torone 13th March - Byzantine Greece: microcosm of empire? Retrospect and prospect 6th March - A Byzantine library: the Athonite Lavra in the thirteenth century 6th February - Delphic festivals, mythologies and genealogies 23rd January - The Trier Ivory, the Icon of Christ on the Chalke Gate, empress Irene's triumph over Iconoclasm and the church of St Euphemia at the Hippodrome 2013 12th December - Literature and culture in late Byzantine Thessalonica 5th December - Cavafy and the not-so-Naughty Nineties 21st November - A grudging rescue: the French evacuation and the exodus of Armenians from Cilicia, 1921 31st October - Sir Steven Runciman and "the nicest Greek" he knew: the chronicle of his friendship with George Seferis 24th October - Homeric commentaries and paraphrases: Eustathius of Thessalonica in search of Demosthenes Thrax 10th October - Traveller's Tales 3rd October - VENICE OF THE GREEKS: The History of Hellenism in the City of Saint Mark 28th July-25th August - Byzantine Summer School 2013 25th May - CBOMGS Postgraduate Colloquium 2013 23rd-25th March - Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? 2012 26th May - Annual CBOMGS Postgraduate Colloquium 15th March - Nevila Molla 1st March - Stella Rock 9th February - Guillaume Saint-Guillain 26th January - Spyros Economides 12th January - E. Georganteli, A. Miynat, M. Saxby, M. Vrij 2011 23rd-25th September - Imperial Legacies in the Mediterranean World - International Conference 27th-28th June - Re-imagining the past: antiquity and Modern Greek culture 27th-29th March - Byzantium Behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion